• Darkenfolk@dormi.zone
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    3 months ago

    Nah I don’t want corpos to have even more information on me than they already have.

    It’s time for people to finally accept again that you can’t shield kids from anything, especially if it seems forbidden and interesting.

    Also if you really wanted to pick a verification age you would have to go with 25+. 18 years old are just legal 17 years old and 20 years are barely out of school and don’t have any experience about anything. 30+ years are stuck in the system and 65+ simply don’t care anymore.

    Actually raise the verification age to 99+. No wait just ban social media for everyone, it sucks and is unhealthy, go tough grass or something.

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      3 months ago

      So don’t have an age restriction for tobacco, or alcohol or strip clubs either cuz you can’t shield kids from anything? Got it.

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        3 months ago

        Nice strawman you got there, but we weren’t talking about those topics.

        The topic was social media, try to keep up.

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          3 months ago

          It’s absolutely relevant. Go back to your cave if you can’t understand that. It’s 2024. You have to think about digital restrictions the same way you think an out analog.

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            3 months ago

            Do you know what the great thing about 2024 is? People actually understand that digital doesn’t have the same restrictions as analog.

            Applying those very same restrictions would be foolish seeing how it wouldn’t work as well, or even at all.

            Nuance is sometimes important in these topics, no matter how much you want to act like your bullshit argument actually holds any water for some overarching topic no one was talking about.

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                3 months ago

                With the subtlety and nuance I’ve come to expect from someone clutching their pearls and yelling: “Won’t somebody think or the children!”

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        3 months ago

        Just dont give internet connected devices to kids and your problems are solved. I would agree with company being forced to verify the age of a person before signing a internet contract. Don’t give open access to internet to kids it’s just like sending them anywhere in the world alone.

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          3 months ago

          right, just don’t give kids cigarettes or guns and your problems are solved…

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            3 months ago

            Put in a parental filter then. You are trying to ruin the accessibility of the internet. What is a person from another country going to do when they don’t have a US ID or whichever country is trying this? The internet doesn’t have regions and people will move on to seedier websites that aren’t based in that country anymore. You can see that with the several states that banned porn without ID. Most porn sites are still available without ID and big names like Pornhub can easily be accessed with a VPN that kids are constantly being advertised about by YouTube ad-reads. Requiring ID won’t make kids safer, it’ll just make the internet a headache to use and a source of identity theft when websites get hacked.

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              3 months ago

              There is a solution that I don’t have and people like you are unable to even imagine, but the internet will not be the Wild West forever.

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                3 months ago

                people like you are unable to even imagine

                I have to share how much joy this brought me- reading it in a comically exaggerated villain voice.